Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations

Product Description Robert Adams, one of America's foremost living photographers, has spent decades considering and documenting the landscape of the American West and the ways it has been altered, disturbed, or destroyed by the hand of man. A professor of English before turning to photography, Adams is also a skilled writer and acute thinker on aesthetic questions. Aperture's previous bestselling collections of his essays, Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph, assembled his thoughts on a range of subjects, including writing, teaching, photography's place in the arts and a host of fellow photographers. Along Some Rivers collects Adams's correspondence and conversations―some of which have never been published before―with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan and Thomas Weski. In so doing, it provides another point of entry, offering a portrait of the artist in debate and elucidating his thoughts on a number of his now legendary projects, including Cottonwoods and What We Bought. Adams also expounds on why, in his view, Marcel Duchamp has not been a helpful guide for art, and he discusses which filmmakers and painters have influenced him, which cameras he prefers and how he approaches printing his pictures. Along Some Rivers also includes a selection of 28 unpublished landscapes. Review "There's an intense melancholy to his images, a deep sadness in the beauty he captures that reveals the natural world at its most vulnerable... The reader is taken on a visual journey across sun-drenched gullies, down river-banks bending with old trees and to the final brutal crime scene of a clear cut." -- Mark Hillringhouse --Photo-Eye: The International Magazine of Photography Books"...Robert Adams embraces an affirmative approach to art, seeking hope and wholeness, and this is not a solitary pursuit... Adams sees the West of today as a place of ruined but not lost beauty and promise, and doesn't stint in his effort to share this vision with his readers and viewers." -- R.K. Dickson --R.K. Dickson"If a tree falls in the forest, Robert Adams will more than likely be there to photograph it. This photographer of the West has made it his life's work to document our changing environment. This book, a pairing of conversations Adams had with various curators, writers and students about his work, offers a unique view into the working mind of this most erudite of photographers." -- B&W: Black & White Magazine, For Collectors of Fine Photography"American photographer Robert Adams contemplates his photographic practice through a combination of intelligent and insightful photo literature and photography. His images are concerned with the environment, and the impact industrialisation and the modern world are having on it." -- Ben Brain -- Amateur Photographer"[the photographs] are in the same ponderous, modest style we have come to know from Adams. His conversations follow the same pattern - with examples of his quiet humour thrown in - and are all the more enjoyable to read for it." -- Ailsa McWhinnie -- Black&White Photography: Dedicated to the Monochrome Photographer About the Author Robert Adams, born in 1937, came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. His work has been widely exhibited both in Europe and the United States. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.